[plug] acrobat reader and printing

BillK billk at iinet.net.au
Tue Sep 5 21:10:00 WST 2000


Anybody have any experiance of viewing acrobat files made by exporting
from MSword 8.0 (as pdf's of course).  One of the lecturers at Murdoch
has decided to distibute his notes in this form (on a unix based
subject!) and I am unable to print them under linux using acrobat
reader.  I am also unable to use another program as they are password
protected which means kghostview etc cannot get a look in!  My thoughts
are that MSword is producing a slightly nonstandard file that upsets the
print drivers when printing under Linux.  Other pdf's print and seem
OK.  There was also the bug where you have to run X in 16bit mode (in my
case) to enable acrobat to even startup! - seems a bit of a dud of a
program under linux!

And of course, they work flawlessly under acrobat reader on windows:(

BillK



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